Seeing AoE1 units in snow is such a surreal experience haha!

AoE 1's high concept was civilization meets warcraft, and part of that was trying to mimic some things that were counterintuitive gameplay wise but somewhat made sense in a semi historical sense. So for example, you don't have that many military research techs, mostly econ research that also has a military application. Woodworking makes you better at gathering wood, but also it makes your bowman stronger. The wheels makes your villagers faster, but also gives you war chariots! The walls from granaries comes from the notion that early fortifications were developed to protect food stores from bandits - human or vaermin. A village that herded sheep or hunted had no need for walls, since they were nomadic. But farmers were tied to a specific land and thus had to protect it. Hence think of it less as researching better defensive masonry in a food storage facility, and more as investing in better defenses for said storage. granaries were really the thing that Kickstarted civilization as we know it in many ways, since food surplus is the cause for so many things that still endure, from writing to war, from marriage to division of labour, and its hard to utilize food surplus without storage for it, now is it?

There is so much potential in this DLC campaign wise. With AOE2 DE, it was starting to get kind of saturated with the civs and campaigns, but Antiquity has so much going on for it, so many civs, so many events related to conquests. This one has only 3, Trajan, Pyrrhus and Sargon of Akkad, but in the future, many more can be added. Caesar, Alexander the Great, Hammurabi, Hannibal, Thutmose III, Neo-Assyrian Sargonid dynasty (Sargon II, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, Ashurbanipal), Nebuchadnezzar, Ramses II, Hittite Empire (Tudhaliya, Suppiluliuma, Mursili II), Classical Greece, Achaemenid Empire, etc. etc.

I felt like so few people talked about the scenario editor, Im really glad to see all the triggers and stuff are now available foe AOE1

Saturninus: -"Where are my Germanic allies? Surely the Rhine ice could not have thawed in January..." -"I am undone! If only I had my Germanic allies by my side..." Sad, I think Saturninus has to wait for some "Barbarians of the North" DLC factions to be released or something.

The campaigns looks very good but its a shame we got nothing for Romans in AoE2. Scenarios around Constantine, Majornus or Aetius vs Attilla could be good for entire campaign and would be on the edge of timeframe

Well, here we go again

Those AoEI buildings in AoE II look absolutely ridiculous.😂 Also just spamming Legions worked in the AoE I Roman campaigns. I don't see why it wouldn't work here😅

We need aoe 2 roman campaign more than anything

If the Stone Throwers work like they do in classic AoE1, they have a microscopic area of blast damage. However, all catapult variants in AoE1 deal FULL damage to everything they hit, so larger catapults in classic AoE1 can actually be quite scary

Mass ballista line and sword line are definitely the way for this campaign

50 population and small buildings, that's something.

Lol. AOE1 is a a more primitive time in human history. I think the tower granary thing is some reference to how defensive fortifications are said to have originated, to guard the most important thing in a village, it's food store. Interesting aside here: read the agganna sutta in Buddhism, for a parallel insight into how the concept of private property arose, through storage of food. As for stone throwers, the concept is simple. You are near the stone when it hits, you basically die. No need for sophisticated concepts like blast damage :D

My fav aoe content creator finally uploading campaign video. Christmas must be early

Apparently the AI in Return of Rome can micro the same way it does in AoE:DE which means all their ranged units will kite your melee units like no tomorrow, the next missions in the campaign will be against the persians and they love heavy horse archers.

Nice DLC. I watch your every video Ornlu Doggo :D

For this scenario's achievement (winning the scenario under 10 minutes game time), I got the two western camps and sent their units to western rebel base, while initial army+eastern camp, along medium swordmen as reinforcement to central rebel base. You only need to destroy both TCs to make blue surrender.

Aoe1 buildings on snow... Oddly beautiful and refreshing.

YES I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

loved the "ripperino" at the end

This is what AOE1 DE should have looked like when they released it in 2018.... Well, better late than never! Great video as always!! I though you did pretty well considering you have never played AOE 1 before. By the way, I think you didnt research it in this scenario but you should DEFINITELY research wheel at the market as soon as possible. It will make your villagers move 50% faster which is huge and improve your economy big time!! Also, they say Romans is an infantry civ and it's true with all upgrades and techs available for Swordsmen and Hoplite line but they also have pretty good siege (Heliopolis are so damn OP) and a decent navy as well ;)

You are very quick!

👍thanks a lot....good strategy to win

Archers and Chariots plus Balistas and Trirems is all I know about playing this game 😅😅😅

I was expecting the same AoE 1 campaigns into the AoE2

Absolutely love it!

I completely understand you, it's a learning experience. Like, slingers counter archers in AOE1 AAAAANNNDDDD cost stone!

Correct pronunciation of Trajan differs from english to original latin pronunciation, so Tray-jan (as in jam) is correct in english, while Tr-eye-an is closer to the latin pronunciation, so either or is fine

That granary placement

Resilient Romans

Don't forget to get back to Alaric and Attila the Huns when you're done with these, Ornlu 😅

That would be the best thing for the dlc if the original aoe1 campaigns would be created in map creator or the devs make it to the dlc.

Your hotkeys are insane

YESSSSS

This game really the beast/best for me i'm new thou

Was the academy available? Build Hoplites, they're so cool and strong

HYPE HYPE HYPE

What gamespeeds did you play these campaigns at?

Best way to play this game is chronological. Start with the most ancient ones and live the bloody history from its beginning.

2:03 MONGUS

How do you even access this campaign ? as i opened aoe 2 and saw nothing.

How can we do the achievement of finish the scenario in only 10 minutes?

I hope campaign from AOE 1 ported to Rise of Rome next update.

The achievement of this one is quite hard to get, even in standard difficulty

Are you going to play through every AOE 1 Campaign?

I wonder if they added the old cheat codes.

next is aoe3 into aoe2. How this would look? Serious question

I just played this mission and I won after defeating only the raiders.

7:37 - Generalus Noobinus

Would love to see how you beat the next one. I've tried it twice so far and got absolutely stomped. No res enemy defends with a lot of archers and I don't know any counterplay.

Can you put these aoe maps into aoe 2? For example you create an aoe return of Rome map with Romans and Greeks etc can you then use the same map but then put byzantines and saracens in?

My sound in the new dlc is not working. Anyone has a clue?

2:02 SUS

Just played this as well and failed it twice. Lol. Got there on the third attempt.

Is there a roman campaign in aoe2?

Is it just mehr or is the campaign way too short? Played all 5 campaigns in about 3h...

you fast lol

Yay! Also can you do Alaric and Attila again given the opportunity?

I thought they had to do a better graphic update, while the precison of the images and zooming is quite absent and nothing so enthusiastically done....

Hello Ornlu the Wolf.... Please try Gajah Mada's campaign 😊 thank you....

GRAINary ?

How do I get this?!

wolooo

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As sad as it is, I think Ill honestly get a response here faster than one from a discord where people seem to go out of their way to ignore new people. For those of you who have gone and tried Pyrrhus campaign, how the hell do you beat the first mission on hard? There's just no way to build up a war economy while also defending your allies.

not that it matters but its pronounced Traian :)

I failed to get the achievment by 1min13 seconds! Too hard.

I'm begrudgingly giving the DLC campaigns a try despite never having played AOE1 before. My preliminary conclusion from doing the first couple Pyrrhus missions is that archers just aren't nearly as good as in AOE2 and I've just been spamming hoplites and stone throwers until everything is dead. But god is this a clunky game compared to AOE2.

Finally female villagers for a AOE1 civ.

Oh wtf, I thought this was gonna be an AOE2 campaign.

Nothing against you, the video quality is top and enjoyable as usual, but the expansion seems...well it's AOE I DE? units now have formations, but no proper unit dialogue, the buildings are the same, so confusing for AOE II players(although I grew up playing both) and honestly, the units look significantly worse than AOE II DE units. pixelated and the movement is so clunky. Not for me. Maybe the Romans that will work with the AOE II data set and appear in the campaigns. But this is definitely the most unappealing DLC they did, if it can even be called that. It's a money grab in my opinion and a minor improvement and gameplay change for those AOE I DE multiplayer fans

I totally misunderstood this. I tought they were gonna make an AoE2 Roman civ, not port AoE1 into AoE2. This looks pretty stupid tbh. Why not expand AoE2 into the classical age? Maybe make a seperate tier of civs for that? AoE1 was never my jam tbh.

oh hell yes. time to get some scooby doo voices

"Trajan is restricted to the Bronze Age". WOW. No bad considering we're speaking of the first campaign chapter from an "HISTORICAL" game 🤣🤣🤣